Origins: Tanya Jessen, Lead Producer on Bulletstorm

Bulletstorm‘s one of the most anticipated titles for next year. The hyperkinetic FPS comes as the result of a joint partnership between EA Partners and Epic Games. As with most things Epic, Cliff Bleszinski’s heavily involved with the title but the man sometimes known as CliffyB isn’t the lead producer on the game. This time, [...]

Origins: Doug Mahnke

In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Doug Mahnke, who’s currently doing splendid pencil work every month on Green Lantern; his past credits include memorable runs on JLA, Justice League Elite and Superman: The Man of Steel, as well as the visually stunning Final Crisis: Superman [...]

Origins: Nicola Scott

In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Nicola Scott, the Australian artist who’s best known for her work with Gail Simone on Secret Six and Birds of Prey, and who debuts as Teen Titans‘ penciller next month.

Origins: Dustin Nguyen

In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Dustin Nguyen, one of the most adventurous artists in mainstream comics at the moment. Currently the artist for Batman: Streets of Gotham, he’s also drawn extended runs on Detective Comics and WildC.A.T.S. (He also maintains a deviantART site that [...]

Origins: Bob Layton

In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we were lucky enough to talk to Bob Layton–a writer, artist and editor with a very long and impressive history in the business, including several fondly-remembered runs on Iron Man, as well as a series of Hercules projects at Marvel.

Origins: What Influences James Cameron

Each film he directs is more epic than the last. Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic…and, of course, Avatar. That last film, a 3-D extravaganza that quickly became the highest-grossing movie of all time, was re-released August 27 with nine additional minutes of footage. Cameron spoke to TIME’s Rebecca Keegan — author [...]

Origins: What Influences Scott Pilgrim Director Edgar Wright

It isn’t every day you get to interview someone like Edgar Wright – someone so interesting, insightful, inspired. This guy clearly loves movies. He loves to watch them, to make them, to think about them, to talk about them. And after spending 45 minutes on the phone with him, I can already tell: This is the kind of dude [...]

Origins: Chatting With Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Diaz

If the title character of author Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao were a real person, he would probably read Techland — Oscar is well versed on Lord of the Rings, the Fantastic Four and all things nerdy. Alongside pop culture sits the Dominican Republic and its former dictator [...]

Origins: Chatting With Up Director Pete Docter

Pete Docter is a Pixar guy. He was one of the animation studio’s first employees, and has directed Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and last year’s almost unanimously acclaimed Up. That last film is only the second animated movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Between that, and its nomination [...]

Origins: Eli Roth, the “Hostel” Guy

The Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds co-star talks to TIME contributing nerd Gilbert Cruz about his creative influences.

Origins: Guillermo del Toro

The Hobbit director talks to TIME contributing nerd Gilbert Cruz about his creative influences.